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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
William Faulkner's use of myth
Get PDFWilliam Faulkner’s use of myth denotes United States’ history fractured by the events of the Civil War and its aftermath, reverberating through the twentieth century into the present. I identify areas of specific Faulknerian myth working within an overarching, recursive version of history, proving that mythology is essential to the enduring creation of Southern identities in wider critical discussion in relation to Faulkner’s role as an authorial mythmaker and observer of his South, and the impact of one South within many.
Faulkner and the Myth of the Lost Cause analyses the South’s most dangerous myth: the Lost Cause. I assess how inherited mythology operates within Faulkner’s life and fiction.
The Mythos of Absalom, Absalom! investigates Faulkner’s hereditary narratives of delayed decoding and invented histories, determined by generational allegiance to the Lost Cause.
Faulkner and the Myth of Racial Inferiority establishes how mythologised racial inferiority affects the South’s non-white population, stemming from enforcement of white supremacy as a tool of control.
Light in August and the Myth of Race investigates further how the contaminant threat of miscegenation suffuses Faulkner’s examinations of racial passing, and its perceived threat to white society.
Faulkner and the Controlling Myths of Southern Womanhood evaluates how women renege against the expectations of post-Civil War society, endorsed or regulated by remnants of the Lost Cause.
Conducting this research extrapolates how Faulkner synthesises fiction and non-fiction, history and imagination, to form a new version of the South working within and reneging against mythologies. My analysis asserts that issues surrounding race, the aftermath of the Confederacy, and the topic of freedoms reflect ever-growing civil unrest and racialised tensions within America. I determine that overcorrection and mythologisation of history are entirely embedded within the creation of myth itself, and inherited Lost Cause ideology. These tensions have created further iterations of the political and social climates Faulkner’s works reflect, ensuring enduring relevance to discussions of women’s rights, race, and the ideological parameters of the South
Breaking out of the ring. Blackness in William Faulkner's "Light in August"
Get PDFThis article assesses the ways in which William Faulkner’s 1932 novel, “Light in August”, uses concepts of Blackness and race to reflect one facet of the African American experience in the U.S. South. I take my title from Joe Christmas’ musing, that “I have never got outside of that circle, I have never broken out of the ring of what I have already done and cannot ever undo” (Light in August, 252). Christmas, one of Faulkner’s many racialised figures, cannot be either Black and/or white according to the societal need for categorization- tellingly, Faulkner leaves the decision of Joe’s race to the reader, if a decision ought to be made at all. Does Joe feel more at home as White, or Black? When attempting to escape from either race, Christmas’ inherently-and enduringly -racialised body creates questions of rupture and social pressure which can only end in his death. Throughout “Light in August”, Joe tests the limits of race and sexuality, goading the towns-people to generate responses which primarily end in violence. Perhaps, if he cannot define his own race through “white thinking,” he can provoke others to 'choose' his race for him (Light in August, 166). Faulkner exposes the fact that to break out of "the ring" of race is impossible. This argument acutely addresses racial issues and the polarisation of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, and the South as a whole
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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